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Metamorphoses (Paperback)
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Metamorphoses (Paperback)
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Ovid's Metamorphoses gains its ideal twenty-first-century herald in
Stanley Lombardo's bracing translation of a wellspring of Western
art and literature that is too often treated, even by poets, as a
mere vehicle for the scores of myths it recasts and transmits
rather than as a unified work of art with epic-scale ambitions of
its own. Such misconceptions are unlikely to survive a reading of
Lombardo's rendering, which vividly mirrors the brutality, sadness,
comedy, irony, tenderness, and eeriness of Ovid's vast world as
well as the poem's effortless pacing. Under Lombardo's spell,
neither Argus nor anyone else need fear nodding off. The
translation is accompanied by an exhilarating Introduction by W. R.
Johnson that unweaves and reweaves many of the poem's most
important themes while showing how the poet achieves some of his
most brilliant effects. An analytical table of contents, a catalog
of transformations, and a glossary are also included.
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